Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

18 April - Blogs I'm Following

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 16: President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush (L) listen as former President Bill Clinton (C) pauses as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House January 16, 2010. President Obama and the former Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton spoke about the efforts to coordinate American Charitable aid to the earthquake victims in Haiti. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Given that most of the obvious progress has been to bring back cholera, coordination must involve the military in something similar to Iraqi 'reconstruction'.

A Taiwan nurse speaks out on CNN: When all of the medical workers in an unhealthy working environment, the patient must to facing a high risk care quality, because in Taiwan, every nurse should take care ...

The latest NYT story on extremes and climate change celebrates the fact that many Americans fail to understand how human caused climate change may be related to recent extreme events. Today's NYT reports...
( 10-4...or should I say Roger ? And what science says isn't the problem. What politicians have arranged to be alleged to be science is. Modeling ? Funny his climate scientist dad is absolutely scathing about the real limits to knowledge being ignored. )

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that h...

Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama signed the new strategic arms reduction treaty, New START, in Prague on April 8, 2010. In the two years since, the sides appear to have exhausted all of its benefits. They...

Michael Freguson revealed that, when it came to the purchase of the F35 JSF, the Harper government was keeping two sets of books. Now parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page has revealed that, when it c...

On April 7 Fox News Chicago reported on Occupy Chicago’s march through the city’s downtown, the Loop, recording that hundreds of protesters chanted “End the war, tax the rich” during part of the group’s Ch...

Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership i...

An excerpt from a paper published for the conference Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics. I am speaking to this paper in Berlin this week. The full paper can be downloaded from their website (...

What bank received $45 billion in bailout money, and trillions (T) in emergency loans from the Federal Reserve? What bank did not pay taxes last year but did receive a REFUND of $1 BILLION (with a B)? Wha...

We can see the other side getting desperate to label people mentally ills for fearing a tyrannical government. To me this is a healthy fear and an instinct of self-preservation for survival. It is a norma...

“Anonymous” may once have been a homogenous band of high-minded hacktivist heroes working selflessly for the greater good. But sadly, that ship has sailed. “Anonymous” has been occupied. And no longer ju...

With the growing number of smartphone users, it has now become commonplace to see commuters using them on the subway. However, overuse can potentially lead to the development of neck, shoulder and back is...

A dispute with South Korea over a remote reef has prompted a tense exchange of words between the two countries. There could be more to come. It was named Socotra Rock when discovered by the British in 190...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The mysterious deaths of millions of bats in Canada and the United States over the past several years were caused by a fungus that hitchhiked from Europe, scientists reported Monday....

Development of a new way to make a powerful tool for altering gene sequences should greatly increase the ability of researchers to knock out or otherwise alter the expression of any gene they are studying...

Over half of 2 million frogs imported to Bay Area annually carry disease that endangers local amphibians. A clerk serving Cantonese-speaking customers at a cluttered market in San Francisco’s Chinatown re...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 110.9 km (68.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:09:34 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) South of Kuril'sk, K...

A survey done on the loss in the Northern Hemisphere of large predators, particularly wolves, concludes that current populations of moose, deer, and other large herbivores far exceed their historic levels ...

*One among an unusually high number of children in Basra fighting leukaemia. * *Credit:Karlos Zurutuza/IPS.*Buy this picture AMERICA'S FALLUJAH LEGACY: WHITE PHOSPHOROUS, DEPLETED URANIUM: THE FATE OF I...

Nearly a quarter-century has passed since an oceangoing ship from Europe docked somewhere in the Great Lakes and discharged ballast water carrying tiny but tenacious zebra mussel larvae from Europe. With...

A controversial new study of honeybee deaths has deepened a bitter dispute over whether the developed world’s most popular pesticides are causing an ecological catastrophe. Researchers led by biologist C...

*AAB asked on Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange:* I was wondering what is the opinion about importance of the hierarchy problem in the hep community? I'm still a student and I don't really understand, ...

Former foreign secretary Jack Straw is being sued by a Libyan military commander over his alleged complicity in his rendition and torture. Legal papers have been served on the Labour MP which suggest he ...

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo he had an "English mentor" who he met during a visit to London in 2002. Breivik spoke about the meeting on the third day of his trial a...

If there is one thing I truly hate in this world it is spending money on stamps. Especially when those stamps are being used to pay bills. It's painful to spend money on spending money. Fortunately, I pay...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of 0 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:52:27 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) North from Tropic, Uta...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Strait of Gibraltar at a depth of 12.5 km (7.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:47:27 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Southwest from A...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 123 km (76.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:24:09 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles)...

Several African leaders watching news of the death of Africa ’s longest serving leader are wondering who among them is next and how they will leave office. Three of the ten longest serving leaders have f...

The British media is reporting that Abdel Hakim Belhadj is alleging that the then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw allowed his rendition to Libya to happen. Jack Straw is refusing to comment. Remember that la...

The U.S. Department of Human Slavery (DHS) is in the process of turning America into a maximum security prison, as it prepares to wage war against the general population of the United States. Recently, t...

UK unemployment fell for the first time in nearly a year in the three months to February to reach 2.65 million, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics said the number of people ...

Brazil is a rare gem, a rising power that has put itself on the path of energy independence thanks to a combination of forward-looking energy policies and newly discovered oil reserves. But what does this...

Forty years ago there was deep concern that the population was breaking free of apathy and obedience. Since then, many measures have been taken to restore discipline. Public education is under attack ar...

(Reuters) - Global food prices rose in March for a third straight month with more hikes to come, the UN's food agency said on Thursday, adding to fears of hunger and a new wave of social unrest in poor co...

This is the latest tally: since the start of the Second Great Depression, the US has lost a total of 5.2 million nonfarm payroll jobs, beginning with 138 million jobs in December 2007, and printing at 132...

A story reported in Grist and first published in the Salt Lake Tribune said that alarming amounts of arsenic were found in two Utah children's urine. The girl's urine tested 50 percent above what's conside...

The children arrive with the telltale signs: shrunken faces, sallow skin, dark rings around their eyes and rotting teeth. Some of the 11-year-olds are so underweight and undersized they look like six-year...

NASSAU, the Bahamas — A brand new $35 million stadium opened here in the Bahamas a few weeks ago, a gift from the Chinese government. The tiny island nation of Dominica has received a grammar school, a ...

Editor's Note: This article was published on salem.news.com on May 14, 2011. Everyday that passes proves it truth beyond doubt. By Tony Cartalucci Special to Salem-News.com (ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON) – In ...

Leverett observes the Iranian nuclear issue is likely to turn out to be, on many levels, a major turning point for America’s relative standing as a great power, in the Middle East and globally. Earlier ...

(Reuters) - Opium is emerging as a new gold standard in Afghanistan, where traders and farmers are hoarding the drug as a source of ready cash t o hedge against the risk of a power vacuum when foreign tro...

The CIA’s plan to spy on every American by bugging everything—clock radios, phones, refrigerators, everything—is ready to be operational as soon as Big Brother’s super spy centers can go online. They will...

Children in low-income households tend to be smaller than their contemporaries, and the risk that they are underweight or obese is also higher. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs conducted ...

The annual joint South Korean and U.S. exercises dubbed "Key Resolve" last month for the first time practiced deploying more than 100,000 South Korean troops in North Korea to stabilize the country in cas...

Korea ranks 31st out of 32 OECD members in a study of life satisfaction, far below Korea's per-capita income ranking of 22 in the organization. Korea is the world's seventh-largest exporter and ranks 15th ...

remember that word 'viral' - this David(8) video comes courtesy of the new WEYLAND INDUSTRIES website, a cynical tie-in with a fictional film release, likened to the ENCOM cynical tie-in corporation from T...

Damascus 16.04.2012 - "Al-Faehaa" public hall President Bashar Al-Assad joined the volunteers in the initiative called "People of Sham are the ones who answer the appeals". The initiative is aimed at sendin...

TECHNOLOGY - What you are looking at is not photo shop. Its a "gliding lizard", a new species that has been discovered in Indonesia and resembles a tiny dragon. No, it doesn't have a tiny pile of gold no...

The family of Osama bin Laden is expected to be deported from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia in the next few hours. They were supposed to have been flown out of the country on a chartered plane at around midni...

The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the United Nations have written an open letter to the wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, asking her to call for peace in her country. In the unus...

Former Bad Boy Records rapper and Sean "Diddy" Combs' protege G Dep has been convicted of a 20-year-old murder. The East Harlem shooting was a cold case that was only solved when the rapper walked into a...

A newborn boy was kidnapped after his mum was repeatedly shot and left to die outside a medical centre in Texas. Kayla Marie Golden, 28, had taken her three-day-old son Keegan for a check-up when she had...

When it was reported that, when much younger, Mitt Romney had once put his dog on the roof of his car the US media went into one of its anti-Republican frenzies.However when it is reported that Barack Obam...

*Neville Husband **"I was told by Husband that you could easily be found hanged at Medomsley, and that that year, six boys had already hanged themselves."* While in the care of governments, lots of innoc...

Source: http://cban.ca/Petition to ban genetically modified alfalfa in Canada by CBAN Food Freedom News, April 17, 2012 Over 10,000 people have now watched the CBAN YouTube video on GM alfalfa! But t...

man, it's all confirmed now, just in time for Project Bluebeam, here's Lockheed Martin senior research scientist Boyd Bushman seeding the path for Global UFO Disclosure via his testimony in support of Bob ...

“Hi there, I’m progressive and she’s conservative…” Some Alberta political parties may be about as different as shown … and as creepy! Below: Pastor Hunsperger, Perfesser Morton and Rev. Trudeau. I know w...

Geologists in Russia's volatile Chechnya region have discovered what they believe to be fossilised dinosaur eggs laid by one of the huge extinct reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 60million years ag...

*"Free Will"* by Ayn Rand "That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call “free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only f...

*"Ratchet"* by Chet Raymo "My MacBook laptop has been annoying me with glitches that are signs of old age (or planned obsolescence). Am I sorry? Not really. At last I can justify buying what I've wanted ...

“To the eye, this cosmic composition nicely balances the Bubble Nebula at the lower right with open star cluster M52. The pair would be lopsided on other scales, though. Embedded in a complex of interstell...

A son of Colonel Gaddafi could be tried in Libya for crimes against humanity, it emerged yesterday. The International Criminal Court (ICC) had been insisting that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi must be handed ove...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 166.8 km (103.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:37 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) West from Batang...

The eurozone could break up and trigger a global economic slump to rival the Great Depression, the IMF warned last night. In its World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund said the co...

Hate preacher Abu Qatada was back behind bars last night – but it could be a year or more before he is finally kicked out of Britain. Home Secretary Theresa May ordered his arrest after she secured a lan...

The convicted terrorist released from prison early after becoming an Al Qaeda supergrass has made a mockery of the secret arrangement by flaunting his freedom, it emerged yesterday. Saajid Muhammad Badat...

Welcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...

In commemoration of the Titanic disaster, researchers at Uppsala University have released a report analyzing the evolution and impact of the "women and children first" rule guiding evacuations from sinking...

*Properly speaking, as I learned from Jack Eichenbaum, the "Upper East Side" is (or at least historically was) the high ground alongside Central Park -- the two blocks between Fifth and Park Avenues, "uppe...

In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was no...

** £7m TV propaganda channel in 22 languages ** £18m visitor centre ** £44m museum One thing that symbolises the European elite’s sense of delusion as they cling to the dream of an unviable single currency...

*Wall Street: Home of International Terrorism.* "The English language is constantly being twisted and pulled in every direction by those who wish to mislead or misdirect us about what is really happe...

*"Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on “the wrong side of history” by failing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to avoid stirring up lingering resentment in Queb...

After a long day at work Southern Man had to head out to The Land (dropping by the Brushhog Guy's house to pay him for the weekend's mowing) and talk to some of the other lot-owners about getting our road ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 204.1 km (126.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:18:38 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) North of Luganville, Espirit...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean, Indonesia at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:15:15 UTC Wednesday 18th April 2012 The epicenter was 714 km (443 miles) WSW ...

I mentioned a few days ago about my nephew getting called up from his Midget Team in Ontario to play for the local Junior C team. He put in a good showing and definitely turned a lot of heads, becoming the...

Some of the massive destruction that remains untouched after 8 years. Last year, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) released a report outlining Shell's role in the oil-covered mess that Nigeria's Delta regi...

#Cdnpoli #F35 - On Sunday, 15 April, the Department of National Defence sent out a *press release* which David Pugliese posted. The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Lead Mini...

(Photo from Occupy the Department of Education, Washington, DC, March 30-April 1, 2012) Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. -- Albert Camus ...

What is Singularity University? by Tony Cartalucci [image: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~meryan/images/cropped%20SU%20logo%20with%20text.jpg] April 18, 2012 - A paradigm shift is coming that will chang...

*I can't read it.* "The court admitted that Peter Sachs *did not file* for restitution of the posters *by the official deadline* for such claims, and that the postwar *restitution regulations* instituted ...

*(Photo from Occupy the Department of Education in Washington DC, March 30-April 1, 2012)* From the *Seattle Times* A rebellion over standardized school testing in the Seattle Hill neighborhood southe...

Last week Ronnie Cummins kept sounding the alarm about how a for-profit corporation-- and we're talking about Monsanto here-- can use its political influence and economic clout to force through dangerous...

Enter the heart of an American family living in the shadows of a state that has criminalized their existence. Walk in the shoes of a public official who has won enormous political gains by incarcerating ...

The more a government does, the less its citizens have to do. Garbage in the street, bruised child in the house next door, stray dog barking all night long - in a well-developed democracy like Canada, the...

*The Conservative Party is categorically denying it has destroyed computer records that might aid Elections Canada’s investigation into fraudulent robo-calls. New Democrats are accusing the Tories of eras...

[image: The Squeal] The advance team for CPC MP Woodworth's M312 also known as "*The kinder, küche, kirche Motion*" has started tactically framing the discussion for the CONservatives. Last year, the CPC...

﻿ My Motto: To Rob the Poor and Give To the Rich!﻿ We are, of course, talking about Grover Norquist. The nurses and other demonstrators who gathered outside his Washington office today came armed not wit...

*"So What’s The Matter With Just A * *Little Bit More Police State?"* by Joseph W. Martin Jr. "When the framers of our Constitution sat down in Philadelphia they realized they had to put substance and str...

Senator Nancy ('Shut the fuck up'*) Ruth has signed the petition opposing Woodworth's Wank. And she commented. there are only a few Conservatives that think like woodworth. Most of us, including the PM,...

"Dutch prince has massive brain damage" Associated Press, February 25, 2012 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch prince hit by an avalanche while skiing in Austria last week has suffered massive brain damage and may never ...

"Northeastern students’ protest blocks Chick-fil-A" February 29, 2012|By Matt Rocheleau Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant will not be coming to campus, after t...

*Taxpayers are still in the ditch. * "GM rebounds with record $7.6b profit" by Tom Krisher | Associated Press, February 17, 2012 DETROIT - That’s good news for the US government, which still owns 26.5 p...

Guest post by Dale Halling from the State of Innovation blog. Too many people today don’t understand property rights—even those people whom you might think would be most likely to. Cato, Reason and the ...

Lots of stuff elsewhere today. At Plum Line, I got cranky about reporting on the death-by-filibuster of the Buffett Rule in the Senate. The fact that it was filibustered and had majority support really is ...

There's no end of baffling stories in Honduran newspapers. Today, I read about a three-toed sloth - endangered here - rescued from a San Pedro Sula home where it was being kept, badly, as a pet. It's doin...

*Gotta go vote!* "Tunisia names new coalition government" December 23, 2011 TUNIS, Tunisia - A *moderate Islamist party will run most of Tunisia’s government ministries* in a new coalition Cabinet present...

Ten years today of sucky blogging for Atrios. That's like a million years in internet time. Of course, I kid about the sucky part. He calls it that himself, I suppose because so many people call him a lazy...

PYONGYANG: A spokesman for North Korea's foreign ministry has accused the US of "overt acts of enmity" after the suspension of a nuclear deal between the countries. In a statement released on Tuesday thr...

(CNN) -- Russia's top diplomat took a shot at the Western and Arab attempts to bring democratic change to Syria Tuesday. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov singled out the Friends of the Syrian People, a co...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:45:36 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 445 km (276...

All hell is breaking loose in Afghanistan. I love the place. But the U.S. shouldn't be occupying it. The latest attack on Kabul and in other centers across the country turned into a terrifying day and a h...

Graphic from AdBusters.Here we go again:Battle for the 'soul' of OccupyAdBusters' latest communiqué is offered up almost like a new commandment from the mountaintop of political purity. By Danny Schechter / ...

*"Despair and the State"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Maybe a dark column is appropriate for tax day, but, I must tell you, it is not my usual way. Nonetheless, there are certain terrible realities in the world, ...

Blogger has given bloggers using their platform for their blogs the option of leaving the blog as a sub-domain of blogspot.com or become a custom domain using the blogger's domain. While custom domain ha...

Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer~Dear Friends, please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey. Thank you fans and music lovers who have...

Wildrose candidate Ron Leech sees "being white" as his biggest advantage in this election. Personally, I think his biggest advantage is having a leader who doesn't seem to care that he sees "being white"...

Brian Greene's *The Hidden Reality* presents various kinds of "parallel universes" and "multiverses" that have appeared in physics – a large universe, an inflating universe, bubble universes, braneworlds...

ColorOfChange Responds to ALEC Announcement that it will End its Task Force that Dealt with Non-Economic Issues April 17, 2012 The following is a statement from ColorOfChange Executive Director Rashad Rob...

The Madeleine McCann mystery took a new twist today as it emerged that Spanish police are looking for the missing girl in a Costa del Sol holiday resort Detectives are making inquiries in Nerja after a t...

Virologist plans to defy Dutch government over export permit requirement for avian flu paper. Ron Fouchier, a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, whose work on H5N1 avi...

(CBS News) Deep-sea fishermen are not usually looking to land a whale. But the fishing line and nets they leave behind are often blamed for a huge loss of ocean life. According to one estimate, abandone...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck East of the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:03:55 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 2677 km (1663 miles) Southe...

An aggregation of over 100 Sperm Whales in seas around Kalpitiya left many onlooker puzzle. This unusually large aggregation was first recorded around Bar Reef area of Kalpitiya. Upali Mallikarachchi of ...

(AGI) Washington - Santorini's volcanic basin is showing signs of resumed volcanic activity. According to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, satellite research tools suggest that a build-...

In Krash Course #6, I highlighted the inverse relationship between what educators acknowledge as important education reform and what self-proclaimed reformers claim as educational reform by noting Diane R...

I know I have mentioned before the BBC's habit of giving a Labour spokesman airtime on the 7pm Radio 4 news. Tonight they did it again. The item about the returning of Abu Quatada to Jordan was the excuse ...

MEXICO CITY (CNN) - Scientists recorded continuing volcanic activity Tuesday in Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, which sits just southeast of Mexico City and its more than 19 million residents. Local gover...

Police in the US have handcuffed a six-year-old girl after she threw a tantrum at school. The family of Salecia Johnson demanded that the Georgia city of Milledgeville change policy so that other childre...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTW) — An outbreak of influenza at the state veterans' home in Rocky Hill sent 18 veterans to the hospital on Monday, with six being diagnosed with a special strain of flu. State Veteran...

Russia's northernmost active volcano is churning out ash to a height of 9,500 meters (over 31,000 feet) in the country's Far East, local scientists reported on Tuesday. The 3,283-meter (10,771-foot) Shiv...

Northville — As many as 400 students and staff at Northville High School may have come in close contact with a student who has an active case of tuberculosis. A female student at the school was diagnosed...

Good news - BUT.... just because she quit doesn't mean she hasn't ditched the ALEC philosophy. Be careful Georgia. A Georgia state senator has agreed to leave the AmericanLegislative Exchange Council ...

TORONTO — Toronto has reported its first case of human rabies in 81 years, in an unidentified person who may have become infected during travel outside the country. Toronto Public Health won't reveal the...

Officials, fearful of retribution, stopped short of naming group responsible Conservative Afghan radicals opposed to education for women poisoned 150 schoolgirls by dosing jugs of water at their high schoo...

(Reuters) - Chinese politician Bo Xilai initially agreed to a police probe of his wife's role in the murder of a British businessman before abruptly reversing course and demoting his police chief, causing...

(Reuters) - A United Nations mission to oversee an end to violence in Syria may need to bring in its own aircraft and deploy more troops to ensure that a firm ceasefire takes hold throughout the country, ...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, proposed new measures on Tuesday to reduce oil market manipulation that are unlikely to get supp...

(Reuters) - Global growth is slowly improving as the U.S. recovery gains traction and dangers from Europe recede, but risks remain high and the situation is very fragile, the International Monetary Fund sa...

(Reuters) - An incensed Spain threatened swift economic retaliation against Argentina on Tuesday after it announced plans to seize YPF, the South American nation's biggest oil company, in a move which...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:37 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 452 km (280...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:29:29 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 258 km (161...

if just TEN PERCENT of the 30,000 Unique Visitors this blog has received *every month* since the start of 2012 had donated just £1.00 or €1.00 or $1.00, I would have been able to work full-time on the FREE...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:29:48 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) ENE o...

We're Not going to Apologize for a damn thing. Because we believe in everything we've done and will do to the American people and the people of the world. But we have to do something, because WE GOT CAUGH...

Great resource guide below--do have a look and get involved. This movement can bring an end the madness of high stakes standardized testing. Tuesday, April 17, 2012 *MEASURING SUCCESS* *Opting Out: Famil...

Included strictly for my lovers of cloak-and-dagger reporting . . . and the computer science guys, of course. (Although it's tough not making the argument that it's also fraught with images that lovers of ...

It's typical of the war in Afghanistan that all sides are claiming victory in the wake of the recent insurgent attacks on Kabul and other cities. We seemed relieved that Afghan security forces, now believe...

Living in South Texas exposes me to a lot of incredible Mexican food, which is great for me since it's my favorite type of food. Every now and then I find myself craving something more authentic than hom...

Trevor Thomas is running for Congress in west Michigan's 3rd CD, which is mostly based in Grand Rapids and Battle Creek and has traditionally been a mainstream type of district. Before the House seat was...

In the wake of Republican US Rep. Todd Akin saying that sooner or later the House would "just get up and impeach this guy," fellow Rep. Allen West--from South Florida--must have felt the need to out-crazy ...

I bet they've already inked the *approval stamp*. Northern Gateway is before a Joint Review Panel (JRP) of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. Under the new rules...

"If the food’s in plastic, what’s in the food?" By Susan Freinkel, Published: April 16The Washington Post [Excerpted] "In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, re...

I'm recycling that headline from last June, but it's still the right one to use. Want to know who will win WH 2012? You can start paying attention to the various head-to-head polls, and you can follow the ...

The Galloping Beaver: And look what floats to the surface (updated) Oh yes, the very latest in the CPC election fraud can be found there. With linky goodness to everyone who has been on top of this story s...

Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com April 17, 2012 The international community has eased its condemnation of Iran following recent negotiations between Tehran and six other nations in Istanbul, Turkey. Whil...

*The American Right's ongoing goal for a more authoritarian society got a big boost this week. A 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court (5 Republican Judges FOR and 4 Democratic Judges OPPOSED) has ...

New Delhi (CNN) -- India plans the maiden test flight this week of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, which can travel more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), military officials said. The Agni ...

It is estimated that the people of the United Kingdom consume their way through their country's annual agricultural production by about Easter each year. Overall, therefore, Brits rely on imports for abo...

*TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012* *Did the New York Times ever explain:* This morning, the New York Times reports the fact that the Buffett Rule got filibustered in the Senate. The report even uses the term “fili...

I have long said that the situation with the Fukushima nuclear disaster is far from over, and that in spite of the constant lies coming out from both our governments and the lying media the situation is in...

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120416p2g00m0dm049000c.html Majia here: Japan's Edano is still not ruling out restart of the Oi reactors: [Excerpt from Mainichi article] "Edano did no...

KUWAIT CITY: Hundreds of Kuwaiti firemen on Tuesday fought to contain a massive fire in a dump for used tires, with some members of parliament calling the blaze an environmental catastrophe. Firemen fr...

*(CNN)* -- Australian troops could begin pulling out of Afghanistan in the coming months and may leave the country almost entirely by the end of next year, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday. It'...

(CNN) -- A heavily glaciated region of the Himalayas is bucking the trend of global ice loss and showing small signs of increasing in mass, according to a new study. Data examining six regions in the Kar...

[image: Oysters: For the past six years, baby oysters in the Pacific Northwest have been unable to survive in increasingly acidic waters. The region’s top oyster hatcheries have also experienced declines...

*TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012* *Part 1—Faux outrage, all faux, all the time:* After four days in Durham, we feel we can make the following statement: It’s much as Obama recently said. Being great uncle to a 5-...

Disagreement amongst Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) members has grown after the administration asked local governments to restart the number 3 and 4 reactors at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefec...

Darrell Desuze who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during last year's riots in London has been sentenced to eight years in jail. His mother Lavinia Desuze, 31, was jailed for 18 months at the s...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has for the first time accepted the prospect of the euro breaking up. In its flagship economic survey of the world economy, the IMF acknowledged that there were fund...

Radical cleric Abu Qatada has been taken into custody and proceedings to have him deported to Jordan are under way. The Home Office has confirmed it is now preparing to have Qatada sent home to face tri...

[image: A NASA study published last January in the Journal of Climate shows that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger, thinner ice at the edges of the ...

This is a shameless bleg to two different audiences. The first, and immediately more important, is undergraduate students who might like to take a serious course about international relations, political...

Happy Birthday to Pete Shelley, 57, and What do I get? I didn't get around to linking yesterday's Post Partisan piece, about Mitt Romney's policy leak. So check that out if you're interested, or try some ...

After a brief break were back to Syria- Figuratively speaking. Syria's Foreign Minister is in China .This follows a visit to Russia last week. Syria's foreign minister will arrive in Beijing on Monday to b...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:07 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) ENE ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 65.3 km (40.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:26:33 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) Southwest ...

Because gerrymandering has given the vast majority of House Republicans deeply red districts where they're more worried about Teabaggers, fascists and deranged Hate Talk Radio fans (or some combination of...

Are the Saints Being Railroaded? ~SaintsWin~Should we implicitly believe there was a three-year, institutionalized bounty program in place simply because Roger Goodell said so? Remember that the NFL Player...

Don Lenihan writes that Canadian politics has been corrupted by a powerful fallacy. Simply put, that fallacy is that government should be run like a business. And, because successful businesses identif...

April 17, 2012 Hezbollah urged the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue with Assad's regime, but they refused. Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah confirmed this in his first interview in 6 years, the ...

History is Bunk. It is written by those with power, and used to justify their crimes. Just as our personal lives are shaped by events which have happened in our early days, so it is with nations and cou...

Perth in Western Australia positively gleams as the autumn sunlight bounces off its skyscrapers and luxury waterfront apartments. No wonder this city sparkles. Perth is at the heart of Australia's boomin...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve...

(CNN) -- In the midst of heated political campaigns and real wars abroad, it is noteworthy that two columnists writing for the most consequential newspaper in the world, The New York Times, took a differe...

There will be many dates already underlined in the calendars of President Barack Obama’s campaign staff and those of Mitt Romney, his likely Republican presidential opponent. But it is a safe bet that May...

Demand from retailers to occupy stores in Britain fell further in the first quarter of 2012, sparking new fears about the health of the country’s high streets. A total of 11pc more property agents repor...

*By Nikke Alex, Dine'* *Letter to the editor* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Last week both Arizona Senators visited the Navajo Nation to persuadetribal officials that they should agre...

The irrigation associations were in the news this week as the KMT proposed a bald-faced annexation scheme for them.... A proposal by the Taiwan Joint Irrigation Association (TJIA) president to have presid...

Exclusive: Lab-grown egg cells could revolutionise fertility - and even banish menopause The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later...

you just have to see this 'super fast acoustic shredding' as they say. young lad by the name of Ben Lapps, this is just sweet as. then someone out of the audience requests 'going to California', I mean ...

North Korea’s agricultural sector has been in serious decline for years. Among the reasons commonly cited are a lack of fuel and parts for machinery and poor weather conditions. However, the country also ...

Hong Kong (CNN) -- Gorillas put off their food and stressed out orangutans, could nature tourism be bad for wild animals' health? It's an idea that has been suggested in a recent report that tested for s...

The hysterical debate over national security and civil liberties has lost sight of some reasonable goals to deter terrorism and criminal activities. When an Islamic terrorist with British links is interr...

Two-thirds of appendix operations may be unnecessary and could be treated simply by using antibiotics, according to a new study. Medical "dogma" and 130 years of tradition mean doctors often wrongly cons...

Women are being granted illegal abortions by doctors based on the sex of their unborn baby, an undercover investigation by The Daily Telegraph reveals. • Doctors filmed agreeing to abortions based on ge...

Hmm. Authorities in Denmark have charged a university professor with assisting “foreign intelligence operatives”, believed to be Russian. Professor Timo Kivimäki, a conflict resolution expert, who teache...

*Anders Breivik murder trial*, summary of day one events: 1) Anders Breivik co-judge Thomas Indrebø deemed INCOMPETENT and kicked from the panel in this PANEL TRIAL. What a day-one stunner. 2) Now it's n...

A sleepy passenger jet pilot forced a sudden plane dive after mistaking the planet Venus for a US military plane, injuring 14 people on board the transatlantic flight, according to a newly released report...

Is U.S. image fading? President Obama on giant screen at Americas Summit in Cartagena, April 14, 2012. Photo by John Vizcaino / Reuters.Occupy Latin America:Changing relations in the hemisphereLatin America’...

LONDON – Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it. The study was ...

April 16, 2012 *Julian explains why he is doing this new talk show, which should air later today.* The wait's nearly over until one of the most anticipated shows of the year premieres on RT. The world...

(Reuters) - The warning last month from Representative Peter King, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, was blunt: An investigation by his staff had determined that...

STANFORD (CBS13) - In the 1966 film “Fantastic Voyage,” a submarine, full of scientists, is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a seriously wounded diplomat. Forty-six years ...

New Delhi/Bengaluru, 6 Feb. 2012: Ahead of a regulators’ meeting on February 8th 2012, and reacting to the confirmed reports of Monsanto’s illegal planting of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) maize in its GM maize...

Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. "The decree i...

Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future. Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most peopl...

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*Hadn't there been protected pupfish* and no *Devil's Hole*, a geothermal pool in a cave under Death Valley (US), where they can be watched, we'd rather not be aware how violent an earthquake interacts wi...

Source: https://www.accessnow.org/ Dear AT&T, Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, and all the companies supporting CISPA, We believe that cyber security is important, but it should not come at the expense...

If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you...

The Norwegian far-right activist who killed 77 people last year has told a court that he believes he is a "revolutionary", adding "people who call me evil have misunderstood". Reading from a 13-page doc...

The first 24 hours • Delivery of medical supplies to the affected area will cease. • Hospitals will run out of basic supplies such as syringes and catheters within hours. Radiopharmaceuticals will deterior...

Do you believe that preppers are a few cards short of a full deck? Do you assume that anyone that is "preparing for doomsday" does not have their elevator going all the way to the top floor? Well, you migh...

What in the world is going on in the heartland of America? Spring has barely even begun and we are seeing communities all over America being ripped to shreds by gigantic tornadoes. A lot of meteorologis...

War between Israel and Iran now seems inevitable. Leon Panetta claimed that it would be this coming spring—and I see no reason to doubt him. How an Israeli-Iranian war will play out—that is, whether it wi...

On May 6, France is holding its second round of Presidential elections, where the Socialist François Hollande is fully expected to win. I’m pretty sure two things will happen immediately following the el...

Over the past few weeks the news from Afghanistan has been grim. Videos showing American soldiers urinating on the corpses of Taliban insurgents; Afghan cleaners discovering at Bagram airbase that Americ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:51:26 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 287 km (178 miles) South from R...

The Copts are the descendants of ancient Egyptians and direct heirs to the culture of Egyptian pharaohs. Today they account for about 9% of the country’s population. The exact number is unknown. Supposedl...

The U.S. soldier charged with murdering 17 unarmed Afghan civilians last month is refusing to participate in an examination aimed at determining his mental state, according to his lawyers. Staff Sgt. Rob...

Over the past years, it has been happening with frightening regularity that U.S. diplomats and CIA agents were caught pulling off operations involving illicit weapons supply in Latin America. The inesca...

I have two political maxims – “you make a serious mistake assuming that people in charge know what the hell they’re doing” and, “you don’t have to be a 10 in politics; you can be a 3 if everyone is a 2”… ...

While regional organizations are going to be the mainstay in international politics in the post-cold war world, one of the old regional organizations Arab League (formed in 1945) has shown all weakness of...

All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drill...

Barack Obama actually plans to do it. He actually plans to neuter America by unilaterally dismantling most of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal. In fact, Barack Obama says that the United States has a "mo...

Somebody out there has decided that the Department of Homeland Security needs a whole lot of ammunition. Recently it was announced that ATK was awarded a contract to provide up to 450 MILLION hollow point ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.8 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:58:18 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 342 km (...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of children in the United States with autism has risen by 78 percent over the past decade. It is now estimated that 1 out of every 8...

Why would anyone want to live in the UK at this point? Well, if you enjoy having every little detail of your life dictated to you by elitist control freaks then you might like living there. But most of ...

Claims he was 36-year senator rather than having 'to produce' anything Vice President Joe Biden, long known for making embarrassing verbal gaffes, echoed the cynical criticism many people levy against car...

The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today. America is a nation with a very tiny elite that is rapidly becoming increasingly wealthy while everyone else is ...

Doctors in Pakistan are fighting to save the life of a baby boy born with six legs. The unnamed infant has a rare genetic condition, hospital officials said. The boy was born to the wife of an X-ray tech...

Lawyers on all sides in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik have called for a judge to be removed following revelations he called for the death penalty for the far-right activist who killed 77 people las...

"People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. T...

As student loan debt exceeds $1tn, we ask if it is the ball and chain that follows Americans to the grave. The cost of higher education in the US has been referred to as the ball and chain that follows ...

It shimmers shyly in the Western Pacific like an unpolished diamond in a nest of sparkling opals. Its size belying its strategic geographical importance. Saipan is the capital of the Northern Mariana I...

The town of Muslyumovo has to be one of the saddest places on earth. The thousands of people who have little choice but to live here, on the banks of the Techa river not far from Russia's southern border...

Democracy. That buzzword we hear over and over again coming from powerful quarters in the US to help explain interventions across the globe, from Iraq to Central America. But while many in the world are f...

In 2011, 24,928 cars were stolen in Japan, an increase of 1,153 vehicles compared to 2010. This was the first time the number of thefts had gone up since 2001 when 63,275 cars were stolen. Obviously, thin...

The government is considering designating areas near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as off-limits for residents for an extensive period, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Wednesday. Concern ...

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